Forests provide innumerable ecological, societal and climatological benefits, yet they are
vulnerable to drought and temperature extremes. Climate-driven forest die-off from drought …

This paper uses published work to demonstrate the link between surface moisture and heat
fluxes and cumulus convective rainfall. The Earth's surface role with respect to the surface …

Summary¶ An overview of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) is
presented. We focus on new developments in the RAMS physics and computational …

Aim As the demands for food, feed and fuel increase in coming decades, society will be
pressed to increase agricultural production–whether by increasing yields on already …

This book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that
occur above the natural (cold-limited) tree line, describing the factors that have shaped them …

The many ways that people have used and managed land throughout history has emerged
as a primary cause of land‐cover change around the world. Thus, land use and land …

This ten-year general circulation model experiment compared a simulation where land
surface boundary conditions were represented by observed, present day land cover to a …

Global climates have been changing, sometimes rapidly and dramatically, throughout the
evolutionary history of amphibians. Therefore, existing amphibian species have been …

The formulation and implementation of LEAF-2, the Land Ecosystem–Atmosphere Feedback
model, which comprises the representation of land–surface processes in the Regional …

This article explores the role of risk perception in adaptation to stress through comparative
case studies of coffee farmers' responses to climatic and non-climatic stressors. We …